Cut Tongue, Penis Gave Mayan Vision Serpent: Lewis Lapham
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In A.D. 681, when Shield Jaguar ascended the throne in Yaxchilan, now near the Guatemala-Mexico border, his principal wife, Lady Xoc, knelt, perforated her tongue and drew a thorn-studded rope through the wound.
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